Nicholas received a Frozen magazine for his birthday. There was a drawing contest inside asking children to draw their favourite character. Nick decided to draw Elsa of course with ice coming out of her hands.
I am beyond proud of him! As any Kindergarten teacher would know, boys do not always like to draw. For those that do, a typical picture of a person would have arms and legs coming out of the head in JK. Nick attempted to add sparkles to her dress and drew ice coming out of her hands. He used white on white so of course you can't see it but I was amazed at his attention to detail. She even has shoes and eyebrows!
This is going to be a good lesson for him as we talked about how there are going to be lots of pictures sent in so he may not (likely won't) win.
This activity showed me how ready for school he is and how much he has grown.
Xo,
Meg
Flash back time!
Here's Nick at almost 1:
Here's Nathan at 14 months:
Both of them just loved these little adirondack chairs!
Xo,
Meg
In July...
- We went to the fireworks on Canada Day!
- We had a few bbqs with friends.
- We went out for dinner for our 6th anniversary.
- We had a beach day at the Pinery.
- I went to see the new Magic Mike movie.
- I had coffee with M before she went back to work.
- Soccer started for Nicholas and swimming started for both boys.
- Nathan participated in 2 more UW studies.
- I had lunch with my friend Michelle.
- We went to several parks- the ones around the neighbourhood, the one in Elmira, Victoria Park etc.
- We took the boys on the Waterloo Cental Railway to St. Jacobs. So fun!
- I had coffee with my friend E. So nice to catch up and talk a little shop.
- We went to the Serbian Food Festival.
- We went swimming at Kiwanis Park. So nice!
- I went on a trail walk with my friend A.
- We went to St. Jacob's market with our neighbours.
- We had a play date and lunch with the V's.
Xo,
Meg
So I have mentioned before that I may need a stripe intervention...
Well it has gone from clothes for our boys to a shower curtain for their bathroom. Now that this is the bathroom that guests will use, I thought I better spruce it up a bit!
Xo,
Meg
Both of our boys said "Da da" first. I have come to grips with this. Nicholas keeps saying that Nathan is saying my name but really he is just saying " mmm mmm" after a yummy food.
I came across this adorable book- love Jimmy Fallon. It's about various animal dads trying very hard to get their babies to say their name. Replace it with "Mama" and that's me!
Xo,
Meg
Nick makes a lot of "works of heart" and I never know what to do with them all. So today I hung a small clothesline in his room.
Xo,
Meg
Yesterday we celebrated our 6th anniversary! We continued our tradition of trying out a new restaurant by going to Red House in Uptown Waterloo. Nicholas wanted a picture of the building so here it is:
It was a very cute restaurant with red umbrellas, red lights, red shelves behind the bar and even red meat knives.
I also loved the wine menu made out of cork:
Dan and I shared pon con tomate for an appetizer. It was delicious. Then we shared a spinach and strawberry salad. Also very good. Dan ordered "Angry birds" for dinner (hen and bacon wrapped quail) and I ordered the lamb spaghetti. Everything was very good. I recommend going there!
Since it was our anniversary they gave us dessert on the house:
It's panna cotta with oreo cookie crumbs and raspberry sauce. Yummy!
After dinner we went for a walk in Uptown. Did you know yarn bombing was such a thing? I didn't!
What a great anniversary! Can't wait until next year!
Xo,
Meg
